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SUMMARY:Pyrenoid formation and impact on photosynthetic supply side energe
 tics in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii - Oliver Caspari
DTSTART:20120615T120000Z
DTEND:20120615T123000Z
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CONTACT:Suzy Stoodley
DESCRIPTION:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii actively accumulates CO2 via the pyr
 enoid\, a microcompartment which is located inside the single chloroplast 
 of the model alga. The vast majority of Rubisco is aggregated in the pyren
 oid\, and recent work in our lab has established that Rubisco also control
 s pyrenoid formation via two small subunit surface helices (Meyer et al.\,
  in preparation). Here I present results showing that distant residues on 
 both helices are necessary for pyrenoid formation. Furthermore\, I show th
 at loss of the CCM as a result of the absence of a pyrenoid (Genkov et al.
 \, 2010) significantly changes the energetics of photosynthetic light harv
 esting.
LOCATION:Department of Plant Sciences\, Large Lecture Theatre
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